Sheikh Abdu Salam

Sheikh Abdu Salam was a high leader of the al-Nusra Front.

Biography
Sheikh Abdu Salam was from a family of Sunni Muslim Syrians, and he became a high-ranking leader of the al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. He was interviewed in late 2015 by VICE News during their documentary on the al-Nusra Front's new generation of fighters, who were educated by members of the group at the al-Nusra Front Academy. He said that the difference between the first and second generation of the group was that the first had to operate in secret, while the second was able to fight as the real mujahideen and that the next generation would be raised as fighters in the Syrian Civil War.